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6. What did Felson find?

  • Out of 2060 murders, women were twice as likely to murder out of jealousy than men
  • Sexual jealousy was the main motivator in domestic killings
  • 55% of battered wives reported jealousy based on suspicion and fear as the main reason for their partner's violence

7. Which study suggested that sexual jealousy was the main motivator in domestic killings?

  • Daly et al.
  • Dobash and Dobash
  • Buss
  • Daly and Wilson

8. In which culture can aggression give status?

  • Yannomamo of South America
  • Kingsan of the Kalahari Desert
  • Western cultures

9. Which study stated that men have evolved to prevent adultery as to prevent cuckcoldry (raising another man's child) so they don't waste their resources?

  • Daly and Wilson
  • Buss
  • Dobash and Dobash
  • Nelson

10. What study found that 55% of battered wives reported jealousy based on suspicion and fear as the main reason for their partner's violence?

  • Daly and Wilson
  • Dobash and Dobash
  • Miller
  • Daly et al.

11. Why are men violent towards pregnant partners?

  • They may believe that infidelity in their partner as occurred and as they don't have parental certainty that the child is their's they are violent towards them to terminate the child and leaving the woman open to bare his child preventing cuckcoldry
  • They are genetically programmed to be aggressive

12. Alternative theory

  • Deprivation model
  • Diathesis Stress Model
  • Importation model